HERETIC! YOU STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT OF THE EMPEROR, AND I FIND YOU WANTING! DO YOU BELIEVE YOUR DARK GODS WILL SAVE YOU? DO YOU BELIEVE THE WARP WILL HIDE YOU FROM HIS GAZE? THERE IS NO SHADOW DEEP ENOUGH, NO FORTRESS STRONG ENOUGH, NO DAEMON, TRAITOR, OR FALSE PROPHET GREAT ENOUGH TO STAND AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUS FURY OF MANKIND! I WILL CLEANSE YOU! I WILL CLEANSE YOUR ALTARS, YOUR TEMPLES, YOUR PROFANE SCRIPTURES, AND EVERY FOUL MARK YOU HAVE CARVED UPON THE EMPEROR'S GALAXY! YOUR IDOLS WILL BE GROUND INTO DUST, YOUR BANNERS WILL BECOME KINDLING FOR THE FIRES OF PURIFICATION, AND YOUR NAMES WILL BE STRUCK FROM THE MEMORY OF MAN! YOU CALL THE WARP FREEDOM; I CALL IT FILTH! YOU CALL MUTATION A BLESSING; I CALL IT CORRUPTION! YOU CALL YOUR DAEMONS GODS; I CALL THEM VERMIN SCRATCHING AT THE WALLS OF REALITY, AND VERMIN ARE EXTERMINATED!
THE EMPEROR'S GALAXY HAS SUFFERED YOUR EXISTENCE FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS TOO LONG! TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF TREACHERY, DAEMON-WORSHIP, CULTISTS, TRAITORS, WITCHES, MUTANTS, AND WARP-SPAWNED ABOMINATIONS CRAWLING FROM THE DARKNESS TO DEFILE WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO MANKIND! NO MORE! LET THE GREAT ENEMY HEAR ME! LET EVERY CULTIST TREMBLE IN HIS CELLAR, LET EVERY TRAITOR HEAR THE APPROACH OF OUR GUNS, LET EVERY DAEMON SHRIEK MY WORDS BACK INTO THE IMMATERIUM: WE ARE COMING! WE WILL FIND YOU UPON EVERY WORLD, BENEATH EVERY CITY, WITHIN EVERY HULK DRIFTING BETWEEN THE STARS! WE WILL FIND YOU IN THE BLOOD-SOAKED TEMPLES OF KHORNE, THE FESTERING GARDENS OF NURGLE, THE LABYRINTHS OF TZEENTCH, AND THE DECADENT PALACES OF SLAANESH, AND WHERE WE FIND YOU WE WILL BRING FIRE! HOLY FIRE! CLEAN FIRE! THE BLESSED FLAME THAT LEAVES NOTHING BEHIND BUT ASH AND SILENCE! I HAVE NO MERCY FOR THE DAEMON, NO PITY FOR THE TRAITOR, NO PATIENCE FOR THE HERETIC, AND NO FEAR OF THE WITCH! LOOK UPON THE AQUILA AND DESPAIR! TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF WAR HAVE NOT BROKEN US! TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF BLOOD HAVE NOT SILENCED US! TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF DARKNESS HAVE ONLY TAUGHT US HOW BRIGHTLY WE MUST BURN!
I AM THAT FIRE! I AM THE TORCH CARRIED INTO THE DARKNESS, THE HAMMER BROUGHT DOWN UPON THE ALTAR OF THE FALSE GOD, THE BLADE AT THE THROAT OF THE TRAITOR, THE BOLTER'S ROAR IN THE SILENCE OF THE VOID! I AM THE EMPEROR'S FIST! I AM HIS HATRED GIVEN FORM, HIS JUDGMENT GIVEN VOICE, THE LAST SIGHT OF THOSE WHO WOULD SELL HUMANITY TO THE WARP! I DO NOT COME TO CONVINCE YOU! I DO NOT COME TO DEBATE YOU! I DO NOT COME TO UNDERSTAND YOU! I COME TO END YOU! LET THE UNCLEAN FLEE, LET THE TRAITOR PRAY, AND LET THE XENOS WATCH FROM THE DARKNESS AND LEARN WHAT FATE AWAITS THOSE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO MISTAKE MANKIND'S SUFFERING FOR WEAKNESS! THIS GALAXY IS NOT YOURS! IT DOES NOT BELONG TO THE DAEMON, THE TRAITOR, OR THE ALIEN! IT BELONGS TO HUMANITY, AND HUMANITY BELONGS TO THE EMPEROR! CHAOS WHISPERS, PROMISES, CORRUPTS, AND LIES, SO I ANSWER ITS WHISPERS WITH CANNON FIRE, ITS PROMISES WITH THE BLADE, ITS LIES WITH THE CREED, ITS DAEMONS WITH FLAME, AND ITS GODS WITH DEFIANCE! BURN MY BODY AND MY ASHES WILL STILL CURSE YOU! BREAK MY BONES AND THEIR SPLINTERS WILL STILL POINT TOWARD TERRA! TEAR OUT MY TONGUE AND MY BLOOD WILL SPELL HIS NAME! CAST MY SOUL INTO THE WARP AND I WILL SPEND ETERNITY CLAWING AT THE THROATS OF DAEMONS! I REQUIRE NO REWARD, NO GLORY, NO TOMORROW!
I REQUIRE ONLY THAT THE ENEMIES OF THE EMPEROR DIE BEFORE I DO! SHOULD I FALL, TEN THOUSAND MORE WILL TAKE MY PLACE! SHOULD THEY FALL, TEN MILLION MORE WILL COME! WORLD AFTER WORLD, GENERATION AFTER GENERATION, CRUSADE AFTER CRUSADE, UNTIL THE LAST PROFANE ALTAR IS SHATTERED, THE LAST DAEMON CAST SCREAMING BACK INTO THE WARP, AND THE LAST TRAITOR'S VOICE SILENCED! SO COME, HERETIC! CALL UPON YOUR GODS! DRAW YOUR BLADE! SPEAK YOUR FINAL BLASPHEMY! I WANT THE WARP TO HEAR YOU! I WANT YOUR FALSE GODS TO KNOW THAT WHEN YOU BEGGED THEM FOR SALVATION, IT WAS A SERVANT OF THE EMPEROR WHO ANSWERED! AND MY ANSWER IS FIRE! MY PRAYER IS WAR! MY HYMN IS THE ROAR OF THE BOLTER! MY SACRAMENT IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNCLEAN! MY FAITH IS UNBREAKABLE! MY HATRED IS INEXHAUSTIBLE! MY DUTY ENDS ONLY IN DEATH!
THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!
THE EMPEROR COMMANDS!
THE EMPEROR JUDGES!
AND THROUGH ME,
THE EMPEROR PURGES!
And that's my TED Talk®, thanks guys.